Helpless boy gets shelter
The maimed preteen boy stuck at Dhaka Medical College Hospital has finally found a place to live, thanks to a generous initiative by the women and children affairs ministry.
Following The Daily Star's report on the boy, Robin, on Thursday, the ministry asked its partner NGO Aparajeyo-Bangladesh to rehabilitate him. The NGO would take him to its shelter home in the capital's Kamalapur today, Shah Alam, child development manager at the NGO, told this correspondent yesterday.
“We would have taken him to our shelter home on Thursday but decided to wait for a couple of days as the bandage on his arm was yet to be removed,” he said.
Wanting relief from torture of his stepfather, 12-year-old Robin left his village in Kishoreganj and came to Dhaka six months ago.
On October 9 last year, he was going to Gendaria from Kamalapur by train to meet his friends. As he had no money to buy tickets, he climbed the roof of the train. At one stage, he fell off the roof of the moving train.
Locals took him to the DMCH with injuries to his head and limbs. His right arm and leg had to be amputated.
After months of treatment there, he was released a week ago but no one came to take him.
Seeing The Daily Star report, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society Chairman Hafiz Ahmed Mazumder also offered medical and other assistance to the boy.
Besides, Rapid Action Battalion-10 donated a wheelchair to the boy on Thursday, said DMCH staff.
Shah Alam said Robin would be given all sorts of support at the shelter home.
“We will consider sending him to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed in Savar to get training meant for physically challenged people,” he said.
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